I'm developing an ASP MVC web project. Now I have a requirement which forces me to deploy to an IIS7 inmiddle of development (to check some features). I'm getting the above mentioned error message whenever I try to type the URL of the web site. (Note: development machine: Vista Home Premium, IIS7)
What I have done until now:
Edited the HOSTS file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).
Put two domains in it (127.0.0.1 domain1.com & 127.0.0.1 domain2.com).
Created a folder c:\websites\dirOfApplication and deployed from within Visual Studio 8 to this folder.
In IIS7 created a new site with host name domain1.com and application folder the above.
Typing the address domain1.com in Web browser results in the above error (HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.)
I think I'm missing something but don't know what! Tryed to deploy the files System.Web.Mvc, System.Web.Abstraction & System.Web.Routing wit the same outcome. Whenever I try to hit F5 and run the application, it works fine!
Maybe it's useful to someone: After converting my app to MVC 4 with .NET framework 4.5 and installing the framework on my server with IIS 7.0 I encountered the same 'forbidden' error mentioned in the question. I tried all options described above to no avail, when I noticed the
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
</system.webServer>
was missing from my web.config. After adding this, everything worked. Simple, but easy to overlook...
EDIT:
Of course the solution above will work, but it is indeed a waste of resources. I think it is better to add the routing module as pointed out by Chris Herring in the comments.
<system.webServer>
<modules>
<remove name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" />
<add name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule" preCondition="" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>